Goal Accomplished!

We did it! Amy and I completed our first triathlon's this past Sunday in the Tri-Hawk's triathlon at the Coralville Reservoir.

The Tri-Hawk triathlon is a sprint triathlon consisting of a 500 yard swim


15 mile bike


and 3.1 (5k) run.



Our first goal was to complete the triathlon and that we did! In fact, we ended up doing really well for our first triathlon, and from what we hear the toughest one in the state.

I finished in 1 hr, 33 minutes and Amy finished in 1 hr, 55 minutes.

I owe special thanks to my awesome wife, as I would not have completed this without her organizing our workout schedules, pushing me through the eight week training we completed, and providing wonderful support. It has always been a goal of mine to complete a triathlon and I have trained several times before either suffering an injury or just backing out prior to the event.

So here's a totally amazing story. There was a guy who blew out a tire about 2 miles into the 15 mile bike. He had those type of pedals where the pedal is the shoe. So you just hop on your bike and slip your feet in the shoes and go. Amy and I both passed him on our way back in from the bike and we saw him walking his bike. After we were all finished with the run part and the race as a whole and loading up our bikes, we heard all of this cheering. Turns out it was this guy just coming in from the bike. He had pushed his bike while running the remaining 13 miles of the bike course. And if that wasn't amazing enough, he did it all barefoot! He ran into the transition area, threw his shoes on and sprinted out to do the 3.1 mile run. Turns out he ran the 3.1 miles just under 20 minutes. Completely, completely amazing! What determination to not just quit!

Can It Really Be???

Yes, the boys turned 5! In a blink of an eye, our once 10 week premature twin babies have become young boys. Where does the time go????


This year we were able to celebrate both the boys birthday and an Iowa victory over ISU which made it that much more special. This celebration included numerous kids, family, and friends. We had a house and yard full as the boys enjoyed their special day with friends from school, neighborhood friends, and cousins.

I love this picture below, and the look on Kinnick's face. Apparently, he really enjoyed the rescue trucks as a present!

As always, our children had the opportunity to pick the theme for their party. And this year, they chose Rescue Vehicles. With high priority placed on Firemen and Firetrucks.

And as always, Mom did not disappoint again with a wonderful homemade cake. Of course, there is no way Amy was going to let their be any Cyclone colors in our house on that day. Thus, she decided to make the fireturck Hawkeye colors rather than the standard red. Just another reason why I married her! Look for more pictures and a description of the cake on her blog www.amystreats.blogspot.com

Happy Birthday Carver and Kinnick. We love you both so much and have enjoyed watching you grow. Thanks to all those who joined us on their special day. We had a wonderful time.

Go Hawks!

And a Small Fry

A couple of weeks ago we enjoyed a great first Hawkeye weekend by going to Fry Fest with kids on Friday and ending with tailgating and the football game on Saturday.

We all enjoyed the many festivities at Fry Fest including.......

The Hawkeye Viper


The Hawkeye Marching Band


The Skydivers

The Harleys

And a very close and exciting win against a very good UNI team.